With wildfires raging, Bolivia seeks help from Supertanker plane
Wildfires raging in eastern Bolivia have burned more than 450,000 hectares (1.1 million acres), or roughly an area the size of the U.S. state of Delaware, officials in San Cruz province estimate.
Four die, more than 100 hurt in thunderstorm in Poland’s Tatra mountains
Four people, two of them children, died and more than 100 were injured during a thunderstorm in Poland’s Tatra mountains on Thursday, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.
South Korea to scrap intelligence-sharing pact with Japan amid dispute over history
South Korea said on Thursday it will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, drawing a swift protest from Tokyo and deepening a decades-old dispute over history that has hit trade and undercut security cooperation over North Korea.
U.S. offer to sell Patriot system to Turkey has expired: U.S. official
The U.S. offer to sell Raytheon Co’s Patriot missile defense system to Turkey has expired, following Ankara’s decision to accept Russian S-400 systems, a State Department official said on Thursday.
Canada opposes Russia’s return to G8: Freeland
The Canadian government remains opposed to Russia rejoining the group of leading industrialized nations formerly known as the Group of Eight, a move U.S President Donald Trump has said should be considered, Canada’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
Victims of ‘La Bestia,’ Mexico’s notorious migrant train, learn to walk again
Twelve hours after he scrambled atop a boxcar on a freight train that hurtled through Mexico toward the U.S. border, Roni Osorio could no longer fight sleep. The train lurched, and with nothing to grip onto, he rolled, fell and was sucked under its chu…
Half a century on, Soviet message in a bottle found in Alaska
Tyler Ivanoff, an American schoolteacher, was gathering firewood with his children on a beach in western Alaska when he came across a champagne bottle with a letter inside.
No vote on Russia joining G7 expected this weekend: U.S. official
The G7 group of world leaders is likely to discuss at its meeting this weekend whether to readmit Russia, a senior Trump administration official said on Thursday, but a vote on the issue was unlikely because the group works on a consensus basis.
Italy president says parties need time for government deal, to report back Tuesday
President Sergio Mattarella said several of Italy’s parties had told him they needed more time to resolve a government crisis and avoid a snap election, and that he had told them to report back on Tuesday.
Bolsonaro says Brazil lacks resources to fight Amazon fires
The Brazilian government lacks the resources to fight a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday, weeks after telling donors he did not need their money.
